Oil Palm By K L Chadha

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Publisher ‏: Daya Publishing House
Author : K L Chadha, P Rethinam
Language ‏: English
Edition : Latest By Publishers
Book Cover : Hard Back
ISBN : 9789388173490

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Dr P. Rethinam obtained his graduation and post-graduation in agriculture from Tamil Nadu Agricultural University Coimbatore. He started his career as Research Assistant in 1963 Assistant Lecturer and Assistant Professor up to 1976 at TNAU Coimbatore and then joined Agricultural Research Service in ICAR in 1976. He became Project Coordinator (Palms) in 1982 and was responsible for research coordination and management of palms. He was selected as Assistant Director General (Plantation Crops) ICAR New Delhi in 1988 and coordinated the research on Plantation Crops Medicinal and Aromatic Crops and Betel vine. He introduced the concept of irrigated Oil Palm as small holders crop. He was founder Director of the National Research Centre for Oil Palm at Pedavegi A.P. and developed infrastructural facilities in a short time. Dr Rethinam was selected as the Chairman Coconut DevelopmentBoard Kochi Ministry of Agriculture and Government of India in the year 2001. He has published 215 articles co-edited two volumes of books on Recent Advances in Plantation Crops edited 37 books and many technical bulletins APCC Proceedings COCOTECH Proceedings Noni Search Proceedings and reports DVDs CDs of APCC intellectual database etc. Dr K. L. Chadha obtained Ph.D (Hort) from IARI New Delhi. Occupying key positions e.g. Horticulture Commissioner (GoI) and DDG Hort (ICAR) he steered R&D of horticulture for five decades. During this period he established a number of Institutes and National Research Centres. He has made significant contributions to the commercialisation of oilpalm in India. He chaired the first working group on potentialities of oilpalm cultivation constituted by Ministry of Agriculture in 1986 and a national committee to review the progress in 2007. These reports suggested potential areas of oilpalm cultivation in 13 states. Most of the recommendations of his group were accepted and resulted in setting up of large scale demonstrations to motivate farmers with he being the Secretary of the committee constituted by PMO to overview these. He led teams to 8 important oilpalm growing countries in the world to select the best source of planting material. His proposal to set up a NRC on oilpalm was approved by Govt. of India which was later established at Pedavegi by ICAR. He has written/edited/contributed several books research papers and popular articles. He received 24 awards including Padma Shri. He is currently President of the Horticultural Society of India New Delhi.